Currently only mods can see lock timers and that's only for questions.
Temporary locks on answers not showing lock duration
When a post is locked, it frequently causes consternation and frustration ...

Current Situation
When a moderator locks a question or answer, they can choose between different types of post notices: content dispute, off-topic comments, historical significance, wiki answer, or ...

Historical locking is used on main sites to indicate old questions that are off topic due to new rules. These posts have collected a lot of votes and are referenced much. Historical locking is used to ...

I've flagged this answer as Not An Answer, and the flag is still pending. Because I want to give some more background information about this user, I'd like to switch to a custom moderator flag instead....

Locked posts really are locked to most users. To moderators, however, locked posts are substantially less locked. Moderators can edit them, post comments to them, delete comments from them, and even ...

Steps to reproduce:
Vote on a post and wait until the 5 minute grace period has expired.
Open the post on the iOS app after it has been locked.
Tap the up or down vote icon you used for your original ...

I was sure this would be already posted somewhere, but couldn't find it - if it's a dupe, my apologies.
Currently moderators have the ability to lock a question or answer with one of several canned ...

The locked and closed question Hidden features of Python has an answer that contains an anti-pattern, a backslash to continue a line.
I tried to edit and to comment, which both did not work, as this ...

This is tangentally related to this post, but the gist of that post is that older ImageShack links are breaking and turning into advertisements. To guard against this, I was editing some posts that I ...

I'm getting conflicting signals here. The post notice instructs me to leave a comment, but I get an error message when I try to do so.
I was the last person to issue a close vote for this question. ...

Backstory:
I wrote a post wherin I went on a huge round-about way of asking my question, talking about how I'm doing it for practice, blah blah blah. There was probably WAAAAAAAY too much unnecessary ...

Here is an answer to a post migrated from Stats.stackexchange.com to StackOverflow.
The answer was given on stats site, and migrated with the post. It is in locked and deleted state. What puzzles me,...

/tools?tab=delete shows a list of questions with pending delete votes. Currently, the list contains locked questions that happened to pick up a delete vote (or two) before they were locked. Regular ...

Considering the continuing interest and media coverage of the takedown of the Silk Road website and Dread Pirate Roberts, does it make sense to re-lock the linchpin question that brought it all down?
...

I did something stupid and posted a bit of an answer including a placeholder for something I was working on at the time.
I've since completed what I wanted to link to and decided to go back and edit ...

.. or at least let me preview all suggestions first.
On one of the Stack Exchange sites I had a perfectly good answer, and somebody edited it so that it contained broken English and wrong answers. I ...

I want to ask "Who can LOCK my forum post in stackoverflow"
Because I try to make my own forum.
And I want to know best practices.
If I should to give opportunity to user to lock his post when he has ...

I understand that questions and answers are locked to prevent unnecessary comments or content changes. But why does the locked state also prevent votes from going through?
Take this question and its ...

I came across an unusual question on Meta today: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179165/should-stackoverflow-run-a-programmers-matrimonial-service-to-prevent-marriage
I went to vote up some ...

I'm an active committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces Project, known as (lu4242) Leonardo Uribe.
A year ago I posted this answer
Difference between Mojarra and MyFaces
But it seems somebody else ...

For most locked questions, the arrows are now removed on the main question and on all answers. For example:
However, on RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags, in which the question ...

I've seen the other questions on the subject, just letting you know it exists here as well:
https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/68769
It shows an answer from the locked cartoon thread....

If a question or answer is locked, one cannot comment on it either. One can flag it to share one's thoughts with a moderator, but one cannot address the specific moderator who locked it, or the user ...

Posts that get deleted because of spam or offensive flags are automatically deleted and locked by Community.
I guess this is a holdover from the old days when users were able to easily undelete their ...

There are a fair amount of locked questions and answers on StackOverflow.
Trouble is, when visiting these questions and answers it is really easy to see whodunit, but often tricky to figure out why. ...